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London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Edition ltd. to 1300 sets, this one of 1190 on machine-made paper, 4 volumes, 4to, 10 plates, including a portrait of Vanbrugh and a floor plan of his Blenheim estate which he designed. Original blue buckram & blue papered boards, with paper spine label. Spine slightly sunned with minor mark. Overall, very good and sound. The plays were edited by Bonamy Dobree, and the letters by Geoffrey Webb.
The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh by Vanbrugh, John, Sir
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The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh
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The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London 1927. Limited Edition. 4 vols. Small 4to. The Plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée; The Letters edited by Geoffrey Webb. One of 1300 sets of four volumes on machine made paper numbered 111-1410. This set is # 779. Slight discoloration to the endpapers, otherwise a clean bright unmarked set in the publisher's mid-blue boards with toning buckram spines with printed paper spine labels. One of the Restoration's most skilful dramatists, Vanbrugh was also one of the country's greatest architects; his best known buildings being Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He also designed the Haymarket Theatre for the production of his own plays.
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The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh
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Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Edition ltd. to 1300 sets, this one of 1190 on machine-made paper, 4 volumes, 4to, 10 plates, including a portrait of Vanbrugh and a floor plan of his Blenheim estate which he designed; original blue buckram-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; an occasional spot or stain, spines slightly sunned, else very good and sound. The plays were edited by Bonamy Dobree, and the letters by Geoffrey Webb.
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Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Edition ltd. to 1300 sets, this one of 1190 on machine-made paper, 4 volumes, 4to, 10 plates, including a portrait of Vanbrugh and a floor plan of his Blenheim estate which he designed; original blue buckram-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; spines slightly discolored, else very good and sound. The plays were edited by Bonamy Dobree, and the letters by Geoffrey Webb.
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The Complete Works of Sir John Vanbrugh; The plays edited by Bonamy Dobrée + The letters edited by Geoffrey Webb
by Vanbrugh, Sir John
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Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Near fine. 4 volumes, 4to; 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches (258 x 190 mm); pp. vol. 1, [4] xliv, 239 [1]; vol. 2, [10] 257 [5]; vol. 3, [10] 290 [4]; vol. 4, [4] xli [1] 284 [2], without the plates of houses, but with a frontispiece portrait of Vanburgh in vol. 4 Printed in monotype Caslon, with titles in Stephenson Blake Old face open. Quarter vellum binding with brown and white batik paper covered boards, deckled edges; title in gilt on spine. Interiors clean and bright, vellum spines lightly soiled. One of 110 copies (no. 86) on English hand-made paper, the remainder of the 1300 print run on machine made paper. [Dreyfus 49]. A complete collection of the plays and letters of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664 - 1726), "printed from the original quartos or octavos. the letters are for the first time gathered together... copied from the originals in the British Museum" [John Dreyfus. A History of The Nonesuch Press. London: 1981, p. 203]. Vanbrugh was an English architect,…
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